Stating that the development of port infrastructure is necessary to the economic health of the nation, a parliamentary committee has asked the environment ministry to speed up the environmental clearance…
“We had seen water flooding the abandoned quarries around us. I was tensed. But we were told not to worry and continue extracting the coal,” recounts a petrified Sahib Ali,…
India’s death and disease burden due to air pollution, an “under-appreciated contributor” to ill health, is disproportionately high, a study has said, underscoring that toxic air prematurely kills 11 percent…
India’s Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB), which received the 2018 Asia Environmental Enforcement Awards by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) for combating transboundary environmental crime, has profiled 1882 criminals…
2018 is the year of our beginning, the year when we took our baby steps to start covering conservation and environment news from India. Though we formally launched on January…
Of the thousands of migratory birds that have landed this winter at Loktak Lake, in Manipur in northeast India, the rare sighting of a once-abundant songbird with distinctive bright yellow…
After dithering over it for years, Jammu & Kashmir’s Department of Forest, Ecology and Environment uploaded the draft of the State Environment Policy (SEP) 2018 on its website in the…
The primary source of agarwood and one of the world’s most expensive trees, the evergreen agar tree (Aquilaria malaccensis Lam.) is a step away from extinction in the wild. In…
The much-publicised “bullet train” is estimated to speed through the Mumbai-Ahmedabad corridor in about two hours. But its development is cutting through decades of work by Mother Nature and its…
“I was not born when my family members were displaced from their ancestral land. Till date we have not got what all was promised to us. Now they want to…
